Improvement in grape and flower pickers



L. B. SNOW.

. Grape and Flower Picker.

N0 ]6(),36() Patented March 2,1875.

THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOTb-LITH.39 841 PARK PLACE, N.Y

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEXOR B. SNOW, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND L. GRANTMEDDAUGH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAPE AND FLOWER PICKERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,360, dated March 2,1875; application filed March 21, 1874.

The instrument consists of two blades orknives, Aand B, working on apivot, at O, by grasping and compressing the two handles or short leversD and E. As the stem at F is severed, it is grasped and held firmly by adouble metallic spring, G, which, passing through and held loosely by aclamp, O, which also forms the pivot, diverges from that point, andpasses along the under side of each knife, and is curved and riveted atH, performing the double office of holding open the blades of the knifeand grasping the stem.

Figurel shows the under side of the instrument with the blades open.Fig. 2 shows the position of the blades and spring when the handles arecompressed. Fig. 3 is the side view of the blade and spring. Fig. 4 isthe upper view of the instrument.

I claim for my invention the combination of the following elements:

First, the blade A secondly, the blade B thirdly, the device 0, whichperforms the double function of a pivot for the blades, and a clamp inwhich the spring is secured; fourthly, the spring G, formed of a singlepiece of metal, and performing the double oflice of holding open theblades at exactly the required distance and grasping the stem, as andfor the purposes described.

LEXOB B. SNOW.

